Diploma in Graphic Design
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Programme Overview
Programme Overview:
This programme is an integrated design study that helps develop your creative passion, specifically focusing on fostering your conceptual and technical design skills. Graphic design course is also known as communication design. It is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas through visual and textual forms for user experience. Forms of communication designed could be represented in physical and or virtual state accompanied by interactive engagement and or display.
Courses in Graphic Design will nurture your design capabilities of working across a range of creative industry-relevant practice from commercial, education to environment, cultural, and civic sectors. Each area of explorations will focus on graphical aspects of print, illustration and screen-based interactive design which contribute to the problem-solving challenges in any area of visual communication.
Throughout the programme, you will indulge in developing your creative ideas in subject area such as advertising, branding, digital visualisation, photography, illustration and concept. These studies are essential to the development of becoming a trained professional graphic designer, while the learning process exposes you to opportunities of developing your progressive graphic design portfolio, to prepare you for better future career prospect.
Duration: 2 Years
Intakes: June
Academic Progression: Graduates may be admitted into Year 2 of Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Graphic Design.
Campus: KL (R2/213/4/0139)(08/28)(AA0084)
Programme Outline
Introduction to Information Technology
Creative & Critical Thinking
Design Fundamentals
Typography
Introduction to Art
Drawing: Dry Media
Colour Studies
Design for Print
Basic Photography
Drawing: Wet Media
Fundamentals of Web Page OR Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Advertising
Drawing: Mixed Media
Packaging Design
Design for Creative Industry
Arts Law
Applied Photography
Digital Typography
Commercial Design
Editorial Design
Digital Illustration OR Music Appreciation
Print Production
Exhibit Design
Graphic Design Final Project
Language, Mata Pelajaran Pengajian Umum (MPU) and Co-curricular Courses:
English for Tertiary Studies, Penghayatan Etika dan Peradaban, Academic English, Integrity and Anti Corruption, Academic English, Civic Consciousness and Volunteerism OR Bahasa Kebangsaan A*is compulsory for students without Credit in Bahasa Malaysia at SPM level. , Professional English, *Co-curricular
**Co-curricular course must be taken in Year 1 Semester 1
Minimum Entry Requirements
**Grade C and above in AELE0364 English Language conducted by TAR UMT is accepted as having fulfilled the English Language requirement for applications who fail English language at SPM/O Level/UEC.
Note
a) SPM holders must have at least a pass in Bahasa Melayu and SPM holders from Year 2013 onwards must have at least a pass in Sejarah.
b) Students without a credit in SPM Bahasa Melayu are required to pass Bahasa Kebangsaan A before the award of Diploma.
c) Equivalent qualifications/qualifications from other Institution of Higher Learning (IHL) will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
d) Subject to the Ministry of Higher Education latest requirements.
Career Prospects
Illustrators
Art Directors
Typographers
Brand Designers
Signage Designers
Graphic Designers
Design Consultants
Packaging Designers
Web Page Designers
Interaction Designers
Communication Designers
Sales Promotion Designers
Fees & Financial Aids
Estimated Total Fees: RM20,200 (Malaysian Students), RM37,800 (International Students)
The estimated total fees may vary by 10%
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